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We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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I fly from pleasure, said the prince, because pleasure has ceased to please I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others.
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The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
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Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.
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All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.
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Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
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Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.
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Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
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Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.
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The violence of war admits no distinction the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.
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All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
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The end of writing is to instruct the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.
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